"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."

Government, African, Countries, Legislation

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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

Woodrow Wilson, American President

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"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."

Death

"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."

Desire

"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."

People

"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."

Change

"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."

Man

"Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man."

Faith

"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all."

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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Explore more quotes by Denis Diderot

"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."

"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."

"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."

"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."

"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."

"Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man."

"If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him."

"All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs."

"The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers."

"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all."